Narayan, Kirin. <br/><br/>
Alive in the writing :  crafting ethnography in the company of Chekhov / 
Kirin Narayan. 
 - Chicago, CA :  University of Chicago Press,  2012. 
 - xiii, 154 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Story and theory.  Taking stock: parts and wholes ;  Looking back: the power of first impressions ;  Scenes, summaries, events ;  Situation, story, theory ;  Chekhov as ethnographic muse --  Place.  The scene of writing ;  Passage to more than a place ;  The feel of a place ;  Others' perceptions ;  Landscapes transformed ;  Wide angles and close-ups ;  Painful places ;  The meeting place of texts --  Person.  Types and individuals ;  The embodied person ;  Lives told by things ;  Inner biography ;  Nonhuman persons ;  Imagining across time --  Voice.  How voices sound ;  Key words, key concepts ;  Transcribing conversation and performance ;  Quotation and paraphrase ;  Pauses, guarded words, words in veiled forms ;  Cultivating your own voice --  Self.  Narrating ;  Explaining ;  Evoking ;  Transforming ;  Reframing ;  Connecting --  Postscript : writing to be alive --  Using this book --  Further inspiration : helpful books on writing.  (1)  (2)  (3)  (4)  (5) 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226568195 (pbk.) 9780226568188 (hbk.) 0226568199 (pbk.) 0226568180 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 --Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnology--Authorship.<br/>Creative nonfiction--Authorship.<br/>Ethnology in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.8  / NAR 2012